id: 144369 accession number: 1969.16 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.16 updated: 2023-03-26 11:00:40.910000 Fragmented Figure Construction, 1963. Richard Hunt (American, b. 1935). Welded steel; base: 35.6 x 66 x 66 cm (14 x 26 x 26 in.); unframed: 143.5 cm (56 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Arnold H. Maremont 1969.16 © Richard Hunt title: Fragmented Figure Construction title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1963 creation date earliest: 1963 creation date latest: 1963 current location: creditline: Gift of Arnold H. Maremont copyright: © Richard Hunt --- culture: America, 20th century technique: welded steel department: Contemporary Art collection: CONTEMP - Sculpture type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Richard Hunt (American, b. 1935) - artist --- measurements: Base: 35.6 x 66 x 66 cm (14 x 26 x 26 in.); Unframed: 143.5 cm (56 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Works from the Contemporary Collection opening date: 1969-07-01T04:00:00 Works from the Contemporary Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 1-October 15, 1969). title: Year in Review: 1969 opening date: 1970-01-27T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970). title: Richard Hunt opening date: 1971-03-23T05:00:00 Richard Hunt. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (organizer) (March 23-June 7, 1971). title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00 Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA: Works from the Contemporary Collection, July 1-mid-October, 1969 * "Year in Review for 1969," CMA (Jan. 28 - Feb. 22, 1970).
"Richard Hunt," Museum of Modern Art, New York (Mar. 23 - June 7, 1971) and the Art Institute of Chicago (Aug. 21 - Oct. 4, 1971).
"Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture," CMA (1975).
"The Appropriate Object," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (Mar. 4 - April 23, 1989). Also to Detroit Institute of Arts (May 15 - July 15, 1989) and J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (Nov. 13, 1989 - Jan. 7, 1990). --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt embarked on his artistic career in 1955 when he taught himself to become a master welder. During the 1960s, his abstract work often referred to human, plant, and animal shapes. This sculpture balances on two splayed legs, appearing to strain and bulge with energy. Light and shadow define the curving ridges and hollows of its form, in which remnants of industrial waste are folded and fused together beyond recognition. Color and texture continually change as the eye scans the surface-from deep brown tones to flashes of coppery iridescence, and from scuffs and abrasions to polished sheens. Hunt relied on a vigorous technique to convey the presence of life and "the kind of forms nature might create if only heat and steel were available to her." --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 200 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n224 Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History & Education, CMA, 1969. page number: Mentioned: p. 4 url: https://archive.org/details/20thCenturyArtCMA/page/n5 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 254 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n274 --- IMAGES